Kinder! Ragazzi! Enfants!

It’s just the way things are
That they’re the way they are,
And that you can bump up

Against them. There they are.
We’re not talking people.
People are malleable,

Controllable, useful,
As water and the wind
To each other in waves.

But that the world has ways
That can be discovered,
That the waves can outline,

Ways that you can’t alter
That you know that take you
Still by surprise, there are.